Re: xterm and shell behaviors
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 03:55:39PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> 1. When I press tab to autocomplete something in the command line,
> and there are more than one possible autocompletion, the shell BEEPS.
> This is very annoying, especially when my gf is asleep within ten feet
> of my computer. :) How can I disable this?
see man bash. (search for 'bell'). it is a thing from the 'readline'
library. you've to put "set bell-style none" in your ~/.inputrc or the
system wide /etc/inputrc...
> 2. I like my xterms to have a black background and gray text, like
> the console; how can I make this the default setting? (I know how to
> do it with command line options, but I want it to be default.) I
> noticed there are commented lines for such settings in
> /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm, but uncommenting those lines seems to have
> no effect.
there was a xfree86-common package (version 3.3.6-8?), with a bug,
which caused that the xresources were not read. are you running this
version?
or, did you forget to restart X (or to run xrdb) after you have
uncommented these lines?
> 3. The delete key seems to function the same as the backspace key
> in xterm; how can I change it to delete the character in _front_ of
> the cursor instead?
which debian version are you running? if you are running potato see
/usr/share/doc/xterm/README.Debian.
moritz
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